Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-03
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Growth of the Grange.


tional convention, and well does it speak
for the loyalty Of the calling upon which
all others depend, that this organization.
which she now so heartily welcomes, is an
organization in the interest of agriculture.
the profession of more than half the ma
TONS people. There are in this National
Grange representatives, from thirtv-one
States. This year and this month have
seen the last State, in the Union of States.
organize its State Grange and send its
Worthy Master post haste to proclaim the
glad news that Little Rhody" has been
claimed by the powers of the united farm
ers effort
Michigan, through her farmer Governor,
has welcomed the National Grange with
its Worthy Masters chair occupied by
patron of Mississippi soil, and with noble
men and women from the rugged hills of
Maine, from the sunny South, from At
lantic's border, from the famed Northwest,
from the middle sections of our wide land
and, too, with warmest welcome, has she
gathered TO her great lake-locked heart,
your honored representatives and their
tributes from
where grows the vine.
Where myrtlcs rain their fragant snow and
bright
The golden orbs of the orange hang amid
Its darkling leaves-a sweet, a sunny land
CAIIFoRNIA's EXHIBIT OF PRODUCTS.
W. l.. Overhiser of Stockton, California,
at present the Worthy Master of his State
Grange, brought from the Pacific Slope
carload Of specimen products that are the
delight and wonder of thousands that view
them. The Senate Chambers of the State
house is given up to exhibits, and Califur-
MAS display occupies one-half of that space.
This is a new feature in the National
Grange, and to your States Past Master.
William Johnston, and his wife are due
the credit of setting in vogue so praise
worthy plan, for no attempt at display
of productions had been made at these
annual reunions, until they took some of
California's Gar-famed fruit with them to
Philadelphia last November. The
utility of an exhibit of the fruits of
the soil upon an occasion like
this is 50 apparent and its feasibility so sue
cessfully demonstrated that the Grange is
not likely to go backward in this respect.
Coming from every part of the Union to
discuss WAYS and means for the promotion
VI biiNil NhlliiiS, ~ Nttll bul
benefit to compare prima-facie evidence of
that calling.
1t was expected from fore-running ru-
mors that California's exhibit would as
tonish the Wolverines of Michigan and
the people who thronged about the beau
tiful display proved themselves very cordial
10 such wonderment. While without the
snow fell in fast robes of white, in token of
what northern winter is to be, within
the Senate room palms amid pampas
plumes and rich, clustered fruits presented
the aspect of a contradictory season. 1t
were but carrying Goals to Newcastle to
even enumerate the varieties and beau
ties of the fruit, on stem and plate, in pan
and box; of vegetables, perfect in appear
ance and huge in size; Of nuts, usually
found here only in market, and the other
numerous and handsome articles brought
across the continent for the instruction.
not to say allurement, of the National
Grange and its visitors. Here, moreover.
luscious pears, ripened by the breath of the
Pacific, greeted sister pears whose blush
the Atlantic had painted on the soil of
New Jersey, and joining both stood the
cereals, the pines and the fruit of "Michi-
gan, my Michigan"
SACRAMENTO coUNTY's EXHIBIT AND
OTHERS.
Sacramento county's exhibit spoke amply
and Loyalty of the resources of its posses
sions through fine products, and convinced
many of our people of the error of their
ways in supposing that only Southern Cali
fornia returns thanks to the sun in fruit
and flowers the year round, for truly land
that laughs out with such spoils at this
season must be no mean competitor of the
tropics themselves.
Noticeable in the exhibits was that re-
latIng to sericulture, made by Professor
Joseph Newman, of silk-culture fame, from
San Francisco. Crowds eagerly inspected
hls collection of cocoons, specimens of silk
worms in every stage of development, and
skeins of glossy, soft raw silk. This gen
tleman is on his way to Washington to
present the advantages and needs of his
chosen calling before Congress- and, Join
ing Worthy Master Overhiser at lansing
with his exhibit, he was given an evening
IN which to address the members of the
National Grange upon the importance to
the whole country of furthering this
promising branch of industry in
States with climates like California. He
made statements and presented claims
doubtless unthought of by most people
not intimately associated with the develop
ment OF this line of work. In this con-
nection | may say that another new and
interesting industry was enthusiastically
pressed upon the notice of the Grange by
United States Commissioner of Agriculture.
Norman j. Coleman. This was that of the
manufacture of sugar from sorghum, and
will, as 1t advances, give to the north
more direct returns, while the production
of silk culture will bear with greater pre-
cision upon the south still, however, it
remains true that, as we are one people,
the advantages of one section signifies the
promotion of ALL
THE HISTORY OF THE GRANGE
In Its progress to this, its time of coming
of age, is interesting as indicative of the
slow but sure advancement n certain class
is making in matters of organization sud
education, for, all supposition by outsiders
to the contrary on that score, the GRANGE
Is most emphatically an educational organ
lzatlon and one which In its special field
has not been equaled by any other effort.
1t combines for the more or less isolated
farmers of whatever neighborhood it enters
the advantages of pioneer singing and
spelling schools, the later day lyceum and
debating club to an extent, the library and
lecture course privileges of cities and the
profitable sessions of the Farmers Club
with the social training and benefits of all.
\ long-felt want in agricultural circles
gave expression to itself in the founding
OF the Order twenty-one years ago. No
secret society ever made so rapid growth
progress that registered 25.0O0 s1bordi-
nate Oranges in 1875, after eleven wears az
effort to join the farmers of the TT,ited
States in self-protectiye bonds. Thus far
ITS success was akin to phenomenal brt il
had been of a tank, unstable growth ;n
Point of numerical strength. Thousands
had Hooked to the Grange standard draw
by - aux
VISIONARY CLEANS OF INDIVIDUAL. FINAN-
cIAL GAINS.
And the sudden ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of ,ba;r
profession. In reality it was not 10 he so
The aills of the gods grind slowly and
The substantial uplifter Of any class mnst
learn te creep before with the world Il
runs away, Hence rs natural outcome Of |
such an inflated state of affairs the GRANGE |
lost rapidly after the first wears. and !, |
eleven years more, there were counted les
han half the original number of subor- |
Innate Oranges. If we take this decrease |